Dr. Keren Agay-Shay

Senior Lecturer מרצה בכירה
Telephone
Email
kagayshay@gmail.com
Bar-Ilan Email
keren.agay-shay@biu.ac.il
Fields of Interest

Understanding the links between beneficial and harmful environmental exposure and adverse health outcomes.

Academic field
Epidemiology
Environmental Epidemiology
Statistics
Research field
Environmental Epidemiology
Research Center
Bar-Ilan University Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Safed
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    Dr. Keren Agay-Shay is a senior lecturer specializing in the field of understanding the links between beneficial and harmful environmental exposure and adverse health outcomes.

    Publications

    Agay-Shay K, Friger M, Linn S, Peled A, Amitai Y, Peretz C ."Periodicity and time trends in the prevalence of total births and conceptions with congenital malformations among Jews and Muslims in Israel, 1999-2006: A time series study of 823,966 births". Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 2012; 94: 438–448, 3.

    Agay-Shay K, Amitai Y, Peretz C, Linn S, Friger M , Peled A. "Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Congenital Malformation(CM) in Israel, 2000-2006".ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2013 ;2(1):237-255.ISSN: 2220-9964.

    Agay-Shay K, Friger M, Linn S, Peled A, Amitai Y, Peretz C."Ambient Temperature & Congenital Heart Defects." Human Reproduction. 2013 Aug; 28(8):2289-97. doi: 10.1093/humrep/det244.

    Agay-Shay K, Friger M , Linn S , Peled A, Amitai Y, Peretz C ."Air Pollution and Congenital Heart Defects." Environmental Research. 2013 Jul;124:28-34. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.03.005.

    Agay-Shay K, Peled A , Valentín C APeretz C, Amitai Y, Linn S, Friger M,  Nieuwenhuijsen MJ "Green spaces and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes"Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2014 Apr 23. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101961.

    Agay-Shay K, Martinez D, Valvi D, Gracia-Esteban R, Basagaña X, Robinson O, Casas M, Sunyer J, Vrijheid M. "Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Child Weight Status at Age 7 Years; a Multi Pollutant Approach". Environmental Health Perspective. 2015 Oct;123(10):1030-7. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1409049.

    Agay-Shay K. "Green spaces in urban environment and infant health". (in Hebrew). Ecology and Environment. 2014;(3)223-224. Per-reviewed Journal since 2014.

    Agay-Shay K, Rudolf M, Rubin L, Haklaie Z, Grotto I. " Secular Trends in Fetal Growth Between 2000 to 2014 in Singleton Live Births from Israel". Scientific reports. 2018 Jan 18;8(1):1089. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19396-w.

    Saadi D, Agay-Shay K, Tirosh E, Schnell I. “A comparison of the effects of selected mono-ethnic urban environments on the autonomic functions of Muslim and Jewish women in Israel”. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2018 Oct 2;190(11):627. doi: 10.1007/s10661-018-7000-0.

    Agay-Shay K, Michael Y, Basagaña X, Martínez-Solanas E, Broday D, M Lensky I, Rudolf M, Rubin L, Kent R, Levy N, Haklai Z, Grotto I.” Mean and Variance of Greenness and Pregnancy Outcomes in Tel-Aviv during 2000-2014: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Approaches”. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018 Dec 13. 1–19. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy249.

    Saadi D, Agay-Shay K, Tirosh E, Schnell I. “The effects of crossing ethnic boundaries on the autonomic nervous system in Muslim and Jewish young women in Israel”. Scientific reports. 2019 Feb;9(1):1589. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-38290-z.

    Sever A, Essa-Hadad J, Luder,A, Weiss O, Agay-Shay K, Rudolf M.” Keeping children safe:  A model for predicting families at risk for recurrent childhood injuries”. Public Health. 2019 May;170: 10-16. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.02.003.

     Saadi D,  Tirosh E, Agay-Shay K, Schnell I“Ethnic differences in home related maternal stress: Muslim and Jewish mothers”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019 Nov 10;16(22). doi: 10.3390/ijerph16224393

    Deziel N.C, Brokovich E, Grotto I, Clark C.J, Barnett-Itzhaki Z, Broday D, Agay-Shay K. “Unconventional oil and gas development and health outcomes: a scoping review of the epidemiological research”. Environmental Research. 2020 March; 182.

    doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109124

    Saadi D, Schnell I, Tirosh E, Basagaña X, Agay-Shay K. ”There’s no place like home? The psychological, physiological, and cognitive effects of short visits to outdoor urban environments compared to staying in the indoor home environment, a field experiment on women from two ethnic groups”. Environmental Research. August 2020; 187. doi.:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109687

    Agay-Shay K. "Direct and indirect links between COVID-19 pandemic, environmental exposures and health". (in Hebrew). Ecology and Environment. 2020;(1). Per-reviewed Journal since 2014.

    Last Updated Date : 14/11/2023